Recent content by Bluto

I installed the spicer diff cover a while ago. Looks great! I used the bolts that came with the kit and had one start to give while torquing down. I took it out and it was stretched. I did have a thought about it though, the bolts come with machine oil on them and oil gets in some of the holes...

Did you guys have the TSB done to the truck?

Did you ever replace the oil filter? A bad anti-drainback could have made the rattle worse sounding. Also did you guys that have had phasers go out get the TSB done before it made sound? I had the TSB completed, still good in my '19, but only at 35k miles at the moment. I also turned off the...

I reused the factory clamps, boots, and BOV they've held up fine against 20 lbs of boost so far. Since they're not a common failure point, I didn't feel the need to change them out. I would suggest buying a creeper if you don't have one, being able to wheel around and easily position myself made...

It's a mishimoto clone. So larger stock replacement with a bar and plate core. I also have my intercooler shutters removed in both examples.

I bought a knockoff intercooler from ebay a while ago for about half the cost of the equivalent retail one. I have since then also tuned my truck. Intake temps under boost sit at about 7 deg over ambient and don't rise during a single full throttle pull to 80+, while the stock intercooler would...

HP tuners is now able to tune 2021+ vehicles. I would expect tuners that use that platform will come out with theirs soon. The downside is the ECU needs to be sent in to unlock it.

Did you have stop/start disabled?

I added some anti wrap springs on my truck to help out with axle wrap. It has helped immensely on the stock springs with wheel hop as well. I had wheel hop on soft dirt under hard acceleration or hard takeoffs from a stop. It was made immensely worse when I tuned the truck, this was at 20k...

Discount scratched 5 of my stock beadlocks so bad they had to be powder coated to get them fixed. 5 is not a typo either, I bought a set of stock beadlocks for my winter tires and they scratched all my summer rims and one winter rim. After that I watch them in the bay the entire time. I had...

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I had discount damage 6 of my wheels at one time. They scratched every single one of my summer wheels to the point I had to have them re-powdercoated. They also scrated up 2 of my winter beadlocks that I had just had powdercaoated and had to be re-done. They paid for all of the repairs,but I...

I've opened headlights before by baking them and prying the lens off. It was a real pain, never doing that again. I would suggest just throwing them on ebay as a broken part and see what you can get.

Nokian hakkapeliitta LT3 are the only actual winter tires they make in the stock tire size. https://www.nokiantires.com/snow-winter-tires/nokian-tyres-hakkapeliitta-lt3/

Can anyone give me a more in depth look at what the anti-lag system looks like in action? I've tried to find videos or numbers, but have come up short. It was my understanding that when in Baja mode, the throttle plate would remain open on decel and keep boost levels up. The system seems to run...